10/05/2009 to 16/05/2009
Sometime at the beginning of Christian Aid week we should all find the distinctive, red, Christian Aid envelope dropped through our letterbox. We may already have seen the advertisement on the television. So what is Christian Aid, and what does it do?
Christian Aid is a charity supported by 22,000 churches in Britain, of which All Saints, Childwall, is one. It works in around 50 countries with the world’s poorest people, regardless of their race or religion, and attempts to tackle both the causes and consequences of poverty and injustice. It seeks to give those affected both short-term emergency relief, and help with longer-term development projects.
The main fund raising event for this work is Christian Aid Week, and last year 300,000 volunteers collected over ₤ 14 million, mainly from house to house collections.
The focus of this year’s appeal is the Democratic Republic of Congo, and work with disadvantaged teenagers there, though many other projects will be supported.
So when you find the Christian Aid envelope on your doorstep, please give what you can. If you’re a taxpayer, simply by completing the gift-aid details on the envelope you can increase your giving by 28 pence in the pound. To borrow a phrase from a wellknown
supermarket chain, and echoed by many of the world’s needy, ‘every little helps’.
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